We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ and Sophos Cyberoam UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats."
"I have found this solution to be easier to use when compared to other products, such as those offered by Cisco."
"Good site categorization and application controls."
"User-friendly firewall solution which scales well, is stable, and has high availability."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"No negative impression of the scalability."
"The scalability of SonicWall TZ is good and easy to add users."
"We like the unified threat management for defense-in-depth. We can terminate our site-to-site and remote access VPNs with it."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The performance has been good overall."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The reporting features are very good."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"The log sections could be done more clearly."
"From a support perspective, if we're talking tech support I think Silver Partners, Gold Partners, Platinum, whatever level, should have a different number to call. End users can call tech support over at SonicWall if they've paid for support as part of their AGSS or whatever services they bought. The end-user can call, or we can call, however, I don't want to be calling the same line that an end user's calling. I don't want the same response time. I need a different level of expertise."
"The monitoring is a little bit confusing."
"They should consider working a bit more on their ransomware application."
"The areas we would like to see improvement include more features available similar to the equivalent FortiGate appliance, e.g. SSL encryption and inspection. Two-factor authentication capability would be another additional feature that could be included in the next release."
"The solution must provide more ports."
"The solution's antivirus checking could be improved so that we can have a deeper inspection of the packets."
"There is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa. See our SonicWall TZ vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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